Management Team

Steven R. Perkins

Sector Vice President
Washington Operations
Northrop Grumman Information Technology

Steven R. Perkins is a sector vice president, Washington Operations for Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology sector. Mr. Perkins is based in Northrop Grumman’s corporate office in Rosslyn, Va., and is a member of the Corporate Business Development Council. He directs the IT sector’s legislative and senior executive customer activities at the federal and state and local levels. In addition, he manages the strategic partnerships with information technology companies to support both internal and external initiatives. Finally, he is responsible for identifying, developing and leveraging technology solutions across the sector, and software solutions across the corporation. He supports business strategy, business development, and mergers and acquisition activity in the sector.

Northrop Grumman is a trusted IT leader and premier provider of advanced IT solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial clients. Its technological leadership spans such areas as homeland security solutions, secure wireless, cyber and physical assurance, IT and network infrastructure, managed services, knowledge management, modeling and simulation, and geospatial intelligence solutions.

Previously, Mr. Perkins was the sector vice president, Business Development and Strategy, for Northrop Grumman’s IT sector. As such, he was a member of the corporation’s Strategic Business Council. He directed sector business development and strategic planning, including overseeing the sector’s long-range strategic plan, pursuit of strategic opportunities, and all business acquisitions. He also managed the sector’s marketing and communications, managed IT partnerships and alliances, and led sector merger and acquisition activity.

Mr. Perkins is a recognized leader in the IT field. He has extensive experience in the defense, intelligence, federal civil, homeland security, state and local, commercial and international markets. In September 2004, he came to Northrop Grumman from Oracle Corporation, where, over his 10-year tenure, he served as the general manager, responsible for sales and consulting businesses for their two largest industry markets: Financial Services and Government. He also managed the commercial consulting business in North America, the largest geography. In his final assignment, he managed two business units as senior vice president of sales, Aerospace and Defense in the U.S., and Government, Education and Healthcare in Canada.

Mr. Perkins developed and led Oracle’s homeland security initiative, working with government agencies and commercial companies to deliver technology that assists in prevention, protection, incident management and continuity of government services. This group also focused on transformational initiatives within the Department of Homeland Security.

He was general manager for Oracle’s U.S. government business, chaired the Global Government Leadership Committee and wrote the business strategy for global government, and managed the Oracle Service Industries Consulting business unit. Previously at Oracle, Mr. Perkins was senior vice president for the company’s Global Financial Services industry. He began his career at Oracle in the consulting services division, serving as the senior vice president for North American commercial consulting overseeing ERP implementation and technology projects across all commercial industries in the U.S. and Canada.

Prior to joining Oracle in 1993, he was a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton in the firm’s Manhattan, N.Y. office, where he consulted on corporate IT strategy for global companies such as General Electric, IBM, American Express and J.P. Morgan. He directed the financial services information strategy practice for the Atlantic sector, serving both the U.S. and Europe.

His consulting career began with seven years at Arthur Young & Co., where he led systems development initiatives for the Department of Defense and civilian agencies, as well as for commercial companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. He started his career in the public sector with the Department of Justice spending five years as a financial systems analyst.

Mr. Perkins has a bachelor’s degree in history from Le Moyne College, Syracuse, N.Y., and a master’s degree in public administration from American University, Washington, D.C.  He serves as chairman of the board of governors at St. Stephens & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Va.